PAN Card OCR

The reader looks for printed fields on a PAN card image and presents candidate text for copying. It does not contact the Income Tax Department, verify that a PAN is active, or confirm a person's identity. Review every extracted field against the card before placing it into a tax, banking or KYC form.

For better recognition, use a straight, glare-free image with all four card edges visible. Reflections across the laminated surface and compression from messaging apps can turn letters into similar-looking characters. Avoid sharing the source image unnecessarily; once you have checked the transcription, clear it from the browser session.

A PAN is always ten characters in one fixed pattern: five letters, four digits, then a single check letter. The fourth letter encodes the holder type — P for an individual, C for a company, H for a Hindu Undivided Family — and the fifth is normally the first letter of the surname. Knowing the shape is the fastest way to catch a bad read, because a result with six letters before the digits, or a digit where the tenth character should be, is wrong no matter how confident it looks.

Photograph the card itself rather than a photocopy where you can. Laminate reflections, a folded corner over the number, or a print-of-a-print all cost accuracy, and the embossed lettering on some older cards reads poorly at an angle. If the text comes back mangled in one attempt, changing the angle to kill the reflection usually helps more than raising the resolution.